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...Soldiers Never Die, by Wolf Mankowitz. A richly comic novel about a Cockney indestructible and his mute pal, who trip up Britain's Welfare State (TIME, Sept...
...even weirder. The tunes in Soundproof (Greensleeves, Baia, Lover) contain effects that resemble giant rubber bands being plucked, the click of a tack hammer, xylophones and harpsichords, and a sound like a Hawaiian guitar quivering on the breeze. To play these tricks, Pianists Ferrante and Teicher not only mute the strings with wads of paper, bits of wood and metal bars, but also pluck the strings while holding down keys for resonance, and even scratch the strings with their fingernails. For all their eccentric behavior. Teicher and Ferrante are master technicians and men of taste; the performances in Soundproof...
...umbrella is lowered through it and opened to catch the fragments of plaster as the gap is widened. Once in the store, the alarm is swiftly disconnected, the safe opened with an electric drill, and the loot removed. The entire operation simulates major surgery: there is the same mute reaching for instruments, the same intensity of purpose, the same growing strain as the operation approaches completion...
...pace of the tour was killing. Panted Furnitureman Herbert Osgood of Youngstown, Ohio: "The hours aren't long enough." Puffed Wall Streeter Franklin McClintock happily: "We don't even have time to brush our teeth!" Host Osawa lost his voice trying to shepherd his guests; all but mute, he finally bought a little brass whistle to signal moveon times. The week's entertainment cost Yoshio Osawa a cool $10,000. Last week, as the diehard Tigers prepared to return to the U.S. by a globe-girdling route, Charlie Caldwell announced that he and his fellow travelers...
...same mechanical terms, and the Russians share and share alike. Finally, young (34) Narrator Ledig denies himself a soldier's permissible cynicism. His major is led at the end to a military funeral, where, after listening to the "unctuous" chaplain, he and his sergeant exchange an almost mute confidence. Everything but God has been destroyed, the sergeant seems to say. "It would be unthinkable," replies the major, "if that were...